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Xavier is his name but I call him The Great One. His story is about his birth, misdiagnosis from the local hospital, the journey for a proper diagnosis and cure in London, the unflinching and unrelenting love of his parents to find a cure for him despite all financial odds. The humiliation of his parents from family and friends in the bid of asking for help, the unbelievable betrayal by his uncle heartwrenching I must say.

How do you do? I so want to write about my life, the lessons I have learnt will sure help others. I am a mother of 1 — beautiful, bright 17 year old daughter and am now in love with a handsome charming man in my life. I so want to write this book. You and i have a unique story to tell. Dear Helen, I am from north east America. My life divided between 3 chapters, 1 chapter, it was my younger age, big family, 8 kids, I am second from top, very kind, nice responsible mom and though hard worker, dad who just had to make sure we have per shoes and got our vacancies each year.

My early age went through 8 years war. First marriage, first baby, skip country, traps, surviving from earthquake after 2 days. Soon after noticed it I am single mom at 28 years old, with the baby girl who was 2 year old, lost husband in earthquake and almost died because of culture.

Fighting for my kid custody at court because of ……law and went through second marriage with my brother law to keep my family instead losing it. Got my green card after 6….. I did work 3 jobs every week to support my kids and my family, finished my college degree, and got the full time job. After 27 years marriage got the phone call from city officer to I have to go to the hospital. I was praying to I can see my husband for the last time. Doctor told me he past way in park. I am single, and lost tow loving brothers to the different ……. Something keeps telling me to write a novel i dont know where to start about my life or the day my 23 old granddaughter was born which i was the first person to hold her my daughter was a single mom i never knew who her father was.

Then my daughter met another guy 7 yrs later and had another baby girl Alexis my first thought my daughter boyfriend was her father 5 yrs later my daughter told her about her real father he was doing 18 yrs for manslaughter after that she became wild getting in trouble my daughter and her boyfriend split up until this day alexis is living with me still struggling. Hi I know I have a story that needs to be heard in some way but I have some doubt on if I can make putting it in a book possible. I a a 29 year old young North American women. But I have obstacles that include, depression, Suicide attempts at 14, abuse, family conflict, marriage, divorce, cancer, carigiving for a terminally husband at a very young age, more family conflict, religion, young babies with a dying father, rare form of cancer with no cancer history and low risk rate of getting the cancer out of the blue, overcoming judgment, motherhood, young children to pre teen age, financial troubles, and dependability problems.

I have no idea where to stay but if you know any resources of where to begin with lot of personal writing exspierence but being a first time author with a serious story to be told. My husband cancer is very rare and it came out of nowhere with a terminal diagnoses 4 days after his 31st birthday. The things I have learned through the journey some do not learn in their lifetimes.

I was encouraged by my therapist and my psychiatrist to write a book about my life.

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Foster kid Briar Givhans grew up on the wrong side of the Charleston society tracks. You will be surprised. I had a few favorite parts, where the book really made me feel A. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A one-bedroomed flat, a sleazy landlord, drug-addicted neighbors-not exactly a childhood dream. Refutes the view of science fiction as 'Cowboys and Indians in Space.

I am asking someone to please come to my apartment to tell my life story. To this day I am effected by what was so sickening in my life. It has lasted to this day. I know I will never get over it, but someone has to hear my life story and get courage from it or they will spend their whole life trying to understand it and get over it. This is not a joke, I have prove. Hello did you ever get anyone to your apt to hear your story?

I have a story myself and it is a sad but true story I am a little ashamed of it and I never spoke of it. By the way I have lived my young life you can tell I have been through hell…I have risen above now in my older years. Keep me posted on your progress in writing your book. Hello Helena, am from Kenya, Africa, am in the process of writing my life history as a inspiration novel to the World because I can assure you I have passed through a hell of life in my earlier age.

Your advice especially using the third person tense. The real challenge is getting the right editor and publishing team to make this writing work more worthy plus the budget I should give to the whole Writing work. It seems you face the same problem with me! Publication team sometimes make the work more complicated, out of the truth that Starving for economic crisis is the biggest thing.

Hi Helena, My name is Dorjee. I am 21 years old. My english is not so good as compared to others. I make a lot of grammatical mistake while writing. But i do have a lot of interest for writing a novel. I soo want to be a novelist. I want to write a simple novel with my simple words in it. If i use simple english words instead of complicated words, which most of the people find it hard to understand? I also want to write a story about my painful life how i studies in student life and how many problem i faced.

All person says that he live in city what he does nothing so i want to write my own story!!! Plz help me in starting my story!!! I hope everyone who has posted and everyone who reads this will buy a pen and a notebook and begin writing their story.

Write until there is nothing more to write. How to write will come later. Write short stories about each experience and give it an interesting title. Sexually abused from the age of 5 and the reason I choose this age is the earliest torturing memories of my father and brothers abuse begins there. From beyond the white picket fence, all seemed normal according to relatives and close friends. I suffered many forms of abuse until I fled home at age 18 and continues.

This island has statistically endured sad stories that females are sexually abused by relatives a staggering 1in 3 women still today and abuse by Priests in our province is quite frankly gut wrenching. My story is but one in many thousands of my peers and I believe by writing about my self therapy may help someone in my community become strong enough to step forward and end their suffering. Any advice you can offer would be greatly accepted as this will be my first book I just need to get out there and help ease just one of many of my sisters with this horrific struggle we face each day.

It is once-again 2a.

My phone rings forcing me to slide out of bed and into my uniform shirt and ready-packed pair cargo pants. I quickly open my e-mail to see who I will need to call. With pen in hand I jot down info to keep my thoughts straight and then I call my grieving family. No matter that I have done this hundreds of times, my stomach still churns every time. There is truly nothing to be said to fix anything for the person on the other end of my call.

I draw in a deep breath as my caller answers and I greet them. How can I help? I will offer condolences and I will arrange to transport their loved one to the funeral home. If the death has occurred at a private residence I will arrange for a helper to go with me. Most homes in New England have stairs and tight spaces so there can be significant amounts of lifting.

That said I will still feel my stomach churning until we get the body into the van. Believe it or not, I am a 57 year old breast cancer survivor and I am tiny! I went through chemo and radiation and the biggest thing I survived was my alcoholic husband! I have no idea where to begin! It seems to me like you have began a very interesting story. Which death is the most painful, they are not the same? Did he just sit and drink? I hope to see all of you new authors on Amazon … sometime next year … or maybe even Christmas time. Books make great gifts. As in recent times, we have been encountering a whole lot of fraudsters by mails and what they end up doing is in a way seek for help and after which they leave the process of whatever help they have sought unfinished which make the spirits so unhappy and they end up unleashing their anger on the chief priest.

Outside your mobile numbers, our only source of communication with you is via our yahoo mail; kenedillitemples AT yahoo DOT com. You out there seeking for any kind of spiritual help, kindly contact the great temple on the above email. May the spirits guide and protect you. Helena for the past 35 years i have been trying to get justice closer. I have had to deal with Cid Operation Goldfinch South Wales an officer took my statement to abuser and i gave 3 other names who abused children in Helena i have been pushed out of investigastion due to this officer and i had it reinvestigated issues that happend to me.

I have also got one abuse case still being investigated 30 years on. Helena i recived no education ,i have re-educated myself to degree level in university Criminology Criminal Justice ,the purpose was to be heard and not be pushed to one side. Helena i was in a road traffic accident of duty police officer smashed into my car and damaged my spine top the fact i wear mophinb everyday through patch at 75mgs hour. Helena i have since carried on. I had my own newsagents,sold that ,then did fruit and veg on markets then went of to university after doing night school english and access course to socials science.

I then got accepted in university but opend my shop instead as it was within a deprived area were i originated from and wanted to give the comminity their meeting point bacjk as well as convience Store. Helena today i still fight for justice closer. I ask authorities who were responsible for me to apologies to what happend to me and they said their insurance company has informed them not to.

Helena its principal not about monis,but they have turned it intoo that. Helena as you can imagine i do suffer with mental health ie,ptsd and Bi Polor. Helena i want people to realise people with power monis will always have the last say,its wrong i am 49 years of age and yet to start my life while the abusers have had their lifes. I want to get my story out their as people need to see that Government and police and Ipcc and all these investigations are a waste of monis and they have forgot were the abuse was originally reported out of county with children from Clywd county council i was one of them kids,no education ,no family ,Christmas alone.

Please could you advice me how to start my story please i would apprititate so much. I have been told by many for years to write a book. After searching the internet trying to get feedback on if this is a reasonable idea since this is such a social media world now, I would love to get some advice. I am a young woman wit several diseases, had brain surgery, been in wheelchairs and walkers, bused her head open, was married and abused, and fell and busted her head open given over to death by doctors.

Despite all of this, I graduated from a university in 3 years finishing with straight As, am walking, mentoring, as well as about to start an internship in the hospital that gave me over. Being raised in church by a strict pastor, never going to a party, smoked, or drank I was often made fun in school. Your site is so helpful to me because it would be written in third person.

Do you believe that me writing this book in which I already began, is a good idea? And how do I go about getting published. One more question, how many chapters would I need or is a good idea? Any advice would be appreciated. Hi my name is tega. Thank you so much for the tips pertaining to writing an autobiography.

I have begin writing my biography about my life. Since our 85 year old father had fallen down, could no longer speak and make sense when he did, my brother began cleaning out his apartment. To find out I was born to a French Jew on August 21, in Baumholder, Germany with no father listed on my birth certificate rocked my sense of who I was to the core. This chapter details my journey of trying to find out if my birth mother was even still alive, obtaining the entire adoption package and even taking a DNA test which helped me find a first and second cousin.

The 6 month process of my obtaining documents since my adoption had been done entirely through the German and French courts had made me a much better writer too. I am currently writing a book about my dog. I know, another dog book.. My questions are about the people I will be having in my book. I have family members, friends, loved ones and random people who have known my dog. My concerns is, should I be worried about having them in book at all?

If I talk to them about it, they seem okay with it, but then read the book and try to find some way to come after me maybe just for the fact I put them in a book , could they come after me for something. I ask this because these family members, friends, loved ones and random people, I trust about as far as I could throw them.

And then opportunity knocks on their door and they decide to come after me. Do I need to change their names? Was only going to use first names. Should I even tell them or ask their permission beforehand? Thanks for the help! She advises caution for all sorts of reasons, not least because lawsuits for defamation between families and friends are so common.

You may do better to fictionalise your story. Can you please point me in the right direction to get someone to write it for me. I suggest you google ghostwriters in your area and you should get plenty of suggestions of who might help — ideally look for someone who has previously worked on books in a similar subject area.

I am currently trying to write my story as well. No body can tell a story as well as you can. Hope you find what you need to create that book. I would really love to know more about your story. My name is Angel Martinez. I want to writing a novel on love a, how can I make chapters on this and how many pages maximum I can write, give me some tips. Synchronicity that I stumbled across your article.

I moved to the USA to marry a sergeant in the army with my 11 year old son. Transitioning has been a huge challenge I found. Thank you for the tips on writing your life story. I am 43 now and feel that I have lived through some tales that if written in a way that could hold the attention of the reader would be very engaging, stimulating and thought provoking. I guess the least I can do is have a go…. I am a 71 year old woman who has made it through much adversity. I am a woman who was raised by a verbally abusive dr.

And a mother that allow his abuse. I have found through my life that I have become my mother attaching to strong verbally abusive men. My goal is to put my story in writing for other people that are experiencing my mistakes can realize it and pick themselves up and help themselves out of this type of situation. So I would like to do this before it is too late for me. I am very emotionally weak and end up letting the abusers talk me into the reasons I let this go on is because of my weak personality instead of holding others accountable for their demands.

I established a company that was successful and sold for millions. I would like to tell my story. I really appreciate your blog. I am starting to write a book based on story of my life. I had gone through lot of struggle and still struggling to get success. But, I came to know so many things during my downs.

I want to mention inspiring events of my life which can motivate other people. Well I want to motivate people by this book especially young people so that they will know what to do during your bad time. But the problem is that I havent succeeded yet so is this right time to write a book? If so then what genre will be for this book? Hi thank you for all information. What is your suggestion?? We went to America for his radiation where he contracted septacemia, meningitis and pneumonia.

He did but lost partial limbs which then they told us he would never walk… He does. They are now building the proton machine in Manchester which my son is the face of as he is an inspiration and survivor. Your short paragraph online already has me gripped. I think true stories like yours can be really inspirational and give courage and confidence to so many people. Go for it or may be start with some small articles in a medical magazine or a blog, Good luck and thank you for sharing. I always wish to become a English write,r as my native language is not English, I feel I will make grammatical mistake if I write, so always my writings end in one paragraph or one page.

I am an American and something similar happened to me with an Italian man- a romantic flamenco guitarist type, who was sexy but also very strongly religious. We met online and bonded and I decided to take a trip to see him. But then suddenly I didnt hear from him. I still went to Italy like I planned and then I decided to search for him when it was almost over…I will not tell you what happened, this is just for those who finish the book! Thank you for this. I had a dream about 10 years ago. I had treasure under my bed. The only thing I could find was a small story my great grandmother wrote about a cabin.

This weekend we found the cabin and took the book to the historical society to get more information. We also have pictures of my great grandparents life starting in the roaring 20s. I have no clue how to write. I am going to finish her story one way or another. When I saw this post I knew I had found just what I needed.

Now I know just what to do.. Thank you very much for the amazing tips! I have been trying to write my life story for about 7 years now. I started writing it on about 5 different computers and every different version was horribly written. Something told me to Google tips on how to write a story about my life and I stumbled upon this blog.

With your tips I was able to realize so many different errors in my approach and I am now very pleased with the flow of my writing. Thanks again and God bless you! Hello ive been writing about my life and my friends tells me why i dont make a book. If you want to write your life experience, then the best is to write what you know about yourself. If you write what you know, then you will describe it in a better way. Thanks for sharing it. I do have a question, if you would be so kind to answer.

This book will be based on a particular span of time in a life, filled with fear, sadness, horror, and triumph. Slowly, through out the story, or in the starting point? Hello thank you providing this information to me and others such as myself! I found these tips that you have shared very inspirational. I have a gripping, heart stomping, story of survival tale to tell. I have been told so many times that I should tell my story. Yet I hesitated for years.

Once again, thank you! I can tell a story now.

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I can turn fact into fiction, and help others at the same time. Hi, I just came across your stuff and read a little bit about yourself and how you got started. People always tell me my life should be turned into a novel. Or a series of novels. I would love to tell someone my story and who is willing to hear it. To give you insight I live a life much older then my age.

When you look at me no one would ever think it. When you find out about my life , I promise you , your jaw will drop. If your interested, email me back. Would love to hear from you and get any insight. Somebody give me the idea to write my life story but I am not a writer and my life was an endless of struggle since childhood and happenings that today I feel ashamed of but I believe I could give some hope to many people that no matter what you can survive, by the way I am a daughter of Hungarian immigrants that immigrated to Brasil and I ended up livin in Japan now 44 years do you have a advice to me or should I find someone to write for me.?

I hope that helps, and good luck with sharing your story, which sounds intriguing. Her name is Rasana Atreya, and her website is http: Thank you so much for the inspirational article. It took Will Caynes seventeen years to have his first kiss.

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Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between. To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. No one knows the truth about those final weeks.

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And in Belisaere she is forced to follow the plans, plots and demands of everyone, from her parents to her maid, to the sinister Guildmaster Kilp. Clariel can see her freedom slipping away. It seems too that the city itself is descending into chaos, as the ancient rules binding Abhorsen, King and Clayr appear to be disintegrating. With the discovery of a dangerous Free Magic creature loose in the city, Clariel is given the chance both to prove her worth and make her escape.

But events spin rapidly out of control. Clariel finds herself more trapped than ever, until help comes from an unlikely source. But the help comes at a terrible cost. Clariel must question the motivations and secret hearts of everyone around her — and it is herself she must question most of all. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret — not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom.

He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken. Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past…She has to confess why Carys disappeared… Meanwhile at uni, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets. Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has. When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame.

For the seven unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change. Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world. No matter the cost. Days before Corey is to return home to the snow and ice of Lost Creek, Alaska, to visit her best friend, Kyra dies. Corey knows something is wrong. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter….

Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows best friends totally included with the smallest dash of adulting—working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Alice is done with dating—no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done. Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never fell and the United States never rose, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.

Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process —just like the first Queen Victoria. Rumor Mora fears two things: Jude Welton has two dreams: But in no reality should a boy raised to love monsters fall for a boy raised to kill them.

Nyx Llorca keeps two secrets: Braeden Tennant wants two things: Nothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation…and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power.

A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange marks on his skin. The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland…. To make matters worse, on the day his school bans hats his preferred camouflage , Dylan goes up on his roof only to fall and wake up in the hospital with a broken leg—and a mandate to attend group therapy for self-harmers.

Dylan vows to say nothing and zones out at therapy—until he meets Jamie. But will Dylan see it that way? Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Standing over six feet tall with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: But juggling multiple jobs, her flaky mom, and her well-meaning but ineffectual dad forces her to be the adult of the family.

Now, with her sister, Hattie, pregnant, responsibility weighs more heavily than ever. The return of her childhood friend Freddie brings a welcome distraction. But as Ramona falls in love with swimming, her feelings for Freddie begin to shift too, which is the last thing she expected. With her growing affection for Freddie making her question her sexual identity, Ramona begins to wonder if perhaps she likes girls and guys or if this new attraction is just a fluke. Either way, Ramona will discover that, for her, life and love are more fluid than they seem.

Bandmate, best friend or boyfriend? For Ramona, one choice could mean losing them all. Ramona and Sam are best friends. She fell for him the moment they met, but their friendship is just too important for her to mess up. Together, they have a band, and put all of their feelings for each other into music. Then Ramona and Sam meet Tom. How can she be true to her feelings without breaking up the band? Back in her hometown, Tori Beaugrand had everything a teenaged girl could want—popularity, money, beauty.

But she also had a secret. A secret that could change her life in an instant, or destroy it. But if she wants to have anything like a normal life, she has to blend in and hide her unusual… talents. Plans change when the enigmatic Sebastian Faraday reappears and gives Tori some bad news: Glory is the Fenris Wolf, bound for hundreds of years in the shape of a small human girl so she can never grow large enough to devour Baldur the Beautiful, god of light.

Imprisoned with her hunger, Glory may not be able to swallow the sun whole, but she can hunt Baldur down, rip out his heart with her hands, and eat him a piece at a time. Glory tries to deny her desire because she knows when she does eat Baldur it will signal the end of the world. But would that really be such a bad thing? These days the United States of Asgard seems too decadent, too media-saturated, and too greedy. It is rotting from within and maybe it should burn.

Maybe now is the time, and her hunger is growing for a reason. Only two people stand in her way: Soren Bearstar, devoted to Baldur and a strong berserker warrior, and Tyr the Just, god of balance and shadows.

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Glory loves both of them, but when a girl finally embraces her destiny, is any love enough to keep the sun in the sky? Since her father died in a car accident, she lives only to fulfill her dream of being accepted into the Manhattan Dance Conservatory. Ashlinn also helps Victoria understand asexuality and realize that she, too, is asexual. They take the opportunity to explore New York City, their feelings for each other, and the nature of their shared asexuality.

Ashlinn must shrug off her human guise and resume her duties creating pleasant nighttime visions—or all of humanity will pay the price. And after her dad dies, it becomes painfully obvious that she must prove it now—to herself and to the world. Born with ambiguous genitalia, Alyx has always felt a little different.

More radical than you could imagine. Her dad walked out. And created a new identity. An identity that changes her world. Alex As Well is a confronting and heartfelt story of adolescent experience—of questioning identity, discovering sexuality, navigating friendships and finding a place to belong. Alex is a strong, vulnerable, confident, shy and determined character, one you will never forget. With the same tenderness and insight as YA stars such as John Green and David Levithan, Alyssa Brugman has crafted a knockout story about identity, sexuality and family that speaks effortlessly to a universal teen experience.

Yet she hides a secret that would see her shunned by the nobility. Gene is both male and female. Then she displays unwanted magical abilities — last seen in mysterious beings from an almost-forgotten age. Matters escalate further when her parents plan a devastating betrayal, so she flees home, dressed as a boy.